A two-year-old boy died last Thursday, a suspected case of food poisoning, linked to biscuits that he ate.
His four siblings, a neighbor’s son and a 60-year-old neighbor who had also eaten the wafer stick biscuits threw up and had diarrhea but recovered after taking medicine.
All the victims are from barangay Punta Engaño in Lapu-Lapu City.
Karl Jade Talingting was so weak he was rushed to the hospital.
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He died at 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.
Karl’s mother, Erma, said the snacks came from Gretchen Jugan who had bought two packs of repacked biscuits from a coworker named Marichu.
According to Marichu, these were genuine products from a manufacturer but were repacked and sold at a cheaper price because the wafer sticks were broken.
The mother suspects the biscuits had exceeded their product expiry date.
Jugan gave the biscuits to her 5-year-old son, Jaden, and the boy shared these with Erma’s children — Karl Jade; Claralyn, 4; Chloe, 3; Clarence, 6; and their neighbor, 60-year-old Andres Sabidor.
They all fell ill and vomited after eating the biscuits.
It was only Karl Jade who was in critical condition. He was rushed to the Lapu-Lapu City District Hospital but was transferred to VSMMC where he later died.
PO2 Joseph Ruel Cutanda advised Jugan to bring the biscuits to their office for examination at the PNP Crime Laboratory.
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